NGO starts typhoid awareness work

Trust for Vaccines and Immunisation has launches its school-based typhoid awareness programme.

KARACHI: An NGO, Trust for Vaccines and Immunisation (TVI), has launched its school-based typhoid awareness programme in Karachi. The programme will start in Gulshan Town and will move on to Jamshed Town, followed by the rest of the towns of Karachi. Typhoid fever is common among children between the ages of five and 15 years, according to TVI.

On average, a child with typhoid fever misses 15 to 30 school days in a year, which has a significant impact on the child’s education, apart from the cost involved in treating typhoid fever. TVI has taken the initiative of preventing typhoid fever in collaboration with the ministry of health, ministry of education, City District Government Karachi, Expanded Programme on Immunisation - Sindh and the International Vaccine Institute - Seoul, South Korea.

TVI chairman professor Abdul Gaffar Billoo said that the NGO had taken the initiative of creating awareness among teachers, parents and students about the infectious disease and the most effective measures that can be taken to prevent it.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 1^st, 2010.